Check-rein



I (No ModeL) S. H. STEWART.

CHECK REIN.

No. 318,819 7 Patented May 26, 1885.

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SARAH H. STEW'ART, OF CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

CHECK-REIN.

SPECIPIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 318,819, dated May 26, 1885.

Appllcation filed July 1, 1884. (No model.)

To (tZZ 2072,0177, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SARAH H. STEWART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Concord, in the county of Merrimac and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Attachmentfor Check-Reins; and I hereby declare the following to be a clear and exact descrip tion thereof.

The object of my invention is to connect a lrorses check'rein with the dash-board or any other convenientpart of the vehicle to which he is harnessed in such manner as that it can be easily adjusted by the occupant of the vehicle without having to alight from the same. It relates more particularly to devices whereby the check-rein is cleared from a hook of the ordinary construction and again broughtback to place with certainty without requiring any particular care or exertion on the part of the driver. 7

The invention consists of a strap, which may be either fiat or round, connected at one end by means of an ordinary metal ring to the check-rein, and passing thence through a rigid elevated eye or guide attached either to the saddle in rear of the check-hook or to the back-strap at a point as near as possible to said saddle, and thence to the vehicle,where it may be secured in various ways, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 shows a horse harnessed and hitched to a buggy having my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view showing the invention with the parts to which it directly applies.

A is the check-rein, and B the check-rein hook. O is the back-strap, which connects the saddle l) with the crupper. Attached to the back-strap G, and a little to the rear of the saddle D, is an eye or guide, F, through which a round or flat strap, G, will pass from the buggy dashboard to the check-rein A, to which it is connected by means of the metal ring H. By attaching this ring H to the end of the strap G the check-rein is permitted to play in said ring with the movement of a horses head, and still be retained central and readyto be caught by the check-rein hook by means of the guide F.

The guide F serves three purposes in its relation to the hook B and rein A. The ring H being used to loosely surround the checkrein and permit it to play freely through the hook B, it becomes necessary to rely upon something other than the attachment of the strap G and ring H to the check-rein to keep said strap and ring in place on the horses back and in the middle of the rein. This is done by the guide F. The second function of this guide is to bring the rein, when it is desired to check the horse, back to a central position in proper relation to the hook to be caught thereon. The guide F enables this to be done by a mere careless pull upon the line or strap G. Third, to carry the rein A over the hook B without the necessity of the drivers raising his end of the strap G to a high position to lift the rein clear of the hook B, the guide is made of such height that a line drawn from it to the point of attach ment of the check-rein to the headstall will pass above the hook, the horses head being in its ordinary position. By this arrangement of the guide F as soon as the strap G is tightened and the rein cleared from the hook the latter will be raised by the taut strap to a po sit-ion above the hook, from which it can freely move forward as the horse lowers his head. The guide F serves the same purpose in the operation of recheckiug, enabling the driver by a careless pull upon the line to bring the check-rein back to a position above and behind the hook B, whence it can be dropped into position to beheld. Another eye may be secured to the back-strap G, near the crupper E, if desired; but the eye F is all that is nec essary. That end of the strap G whichis con neoted to the buggy may be provided with a snapper-hook, I, and hooked to an iron ring, J,at any convenient point, either on the dasher X or on the top, always providing sufficient: surplus over and above the distances from the buggy to the water-hook to admit of a horse drinking at any ordinary watering-trough.

The snapperhook I may be attached to the buggy, and the metal ring J, above referred to. take its place on the strap with equally as good results.

Having thus fully described my invention,

whatI claim, and desire to secure by Letters B, whereby the rein may be operated as de- Patent of the United States, is scribed, substantially as set forth. :0

The herein described check rein atttach- In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my sigment, consisting of the combination, with the nature in the presence of two witnesses. 5 hook B and rein A, of a strap, G, connected c SARAH H. STEYVART.

with said rein and passing back to the vehicle, \Vitnesses; and the rigid eievated guide 13, mounted upon J. B. THURsToN,

the harness in rear of and in line with the hook V. B. HOWE. 

